Just took a pic of my sinensis at 10 in the morning
For some reason, yesterday it started throwing off leaves and so it did when I put it outside 20 minutes ago. The leaves don't look dry or something. They actually look good. I hope it has to do with the moving off the plant.
I pourred it yesterday, if you're asking yourself why the soil is this wet.

If your plant has been inside for the winter, don't put it in full sun right away. It needs time to adapt to the bright sun light.

What kind of orange is it, by the way?

The plant has been outside for weeks now. I've put it outside when the temperature was about 10°C and took it back into the garage when it was about to freeze. The rest off the time it stayed in the greenhouse of outside.
I lost some leaves during the winter to though. Always a couple of leaves in a short periode of time.

I think this one is the 'sweet orange'.

Ah OK. I think it is normal for a citrus plant to drop some leaves. My buddhas hand plant lost almost all it's leaves during the winter, but it recovered nicely and has never looked better!

I see some leaves come of my citrus plants every now and then too, but I don't worry too much about it. Older leaves will come of anyway.

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I think this one is the 'sweet orange'.

I was actually curious about the variety, like "washington navel" or "valencia"!

I bought it without extra knwoledge :p.
The card just said C. sinensis.

Just took some extra pic's. It had a lot of buds which remained during the winter. I'm still waiting them to open. Also I'm waiting for new leaves because I've never seen any 'emerge' since the time I bought it.
I did repot it after buying it, maybe thats a first reason and because of the hard winter in combination with the fact that it didn't get that many light.

A fruit that died during the winter and just keeps hanging around


Some buds that are hopefully going to open really soon!


A picture that had fallen off. You can see the leaf isn't really the dark green that it should be. The vains are sometimes more yellowish and the 'flesh' isn't always the expected dark green.

Just came home...apparently the citrus decided to throw off another 10 or so leaves in the meantime :s

And today he is almost completely bold!
Hmm this is disturbing


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The most logical reason would be the temperature fluctuations since it stays outside during the night sometimes while on other (rainy) occasions it stays in the greenhouse and this one gets really warm in the morning. This could be a very important factor.

That might indeed be the reason.

To minimise the temperature shock I only put my plants outside during the day, when the temperature outside is about equal to the inside temperature, and I take them back inside in the evening.

In fact, I only put the flowering plants outside, to let the bees do their work!

I put it under the gardenshed roof. I was hopen to give it a more stable surrounding. Now the temperature rises more slowly in the morning in comparisson with putting it in the greenhouse every night and taking it out every morning.
This way it gets the most sunlight since I don't get u early :p

Some update pictures of my now bald sinensis. On the other hand it still has some buds from which 2 are about to open in the near future.

edit: It's also making new leaves but not on the bald part. I wonder why. Does any one have a clue?

Could it be that the bald branch is going to die off? All those little twigs where the leaves used to be are falling off. They need a little touch or even a minor vibration and they fall off. Now they're all gone. Tapped them off myself since they were gonna do that anyways.

Also the main vein of the leaves remaining at that part (I think 2 or 3 :p ) are turning yellow starting from the branch and is starting to stretch towards the tip of the leave. I guess after a while they will fall of too.

I find this pretty strange since the bottom part is making a lot of tiny leaves and buds. :s

Is this normal?

In the meantime the 2 biggest flowers have opened and are spreading a very nice sent in the 'greenhouse'. Also the new leaves are growing nicely and every 'patch' of leaves is forming a new bud. This is making me very happy...allthough the upper part of the plant is totally bald. :p





the new leaves with buds...

I have a potted citrus that lost most of its leaves in March and stayed nearly leafless until recently. Now it has new leaves growing on every branch! Just because your tree is bald on the upper branches does not mean those branches will die! Give it some time and it should be fine.

Also, what is the fertilizer schedule and what do you use to fertilize it with?